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TV rivals brekkie bread together at Royal Television Society bash | Media Monkeyhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/jul/16/tv-rivals-royal-television-society
<p>Erstwhile breakfast TV rivals Sir David Frost and Nick Ross were reunited at a Royal Television Society lunch on Monday looking back at the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/17/bbc1-breakfast-time-30-years-cereal-tv" title="">launch, 30 years ago, of breakfast television in the UK</a>. Frost, one of TV-am's "famous five", was generous in his praise of BBC1's Breakfast Time which, until Roland Rat came on the scene, ate TV-am for breakfast. "It was pretty damn good straight away," recalled Frost. "The sweater [as modelled by Frank Bough et al] was a mega revolution. We rushed out to buy sweaters. They found a shorthand for what we were all trying to do." Ross, one of the original Breakfast Time presenters, was less gushing, more forthright. "Your mistakes weren't technical or union problems or the right computers," he told Frost. "You confused, as I would have done, authority with pomposity. It was actually a rather earnest programme and it was wrong for that time of day." Frost appeared to agree, recalling an Anna Ford interview in TV-am's early days about female circumcision. "It is not breakfast fodder of any kind," he admitted. Former Breakfast Time producer Colin Stanbridge said Ford's interview was legendary in BBC circles. "When I saw eight and a half minutes on female circumcision, I thought that's it, we're home and dry," said Stanbridge. "It became the thing we all referred to, that was the one item where we went, 'they have lost it, there's no way we can lose' … Of course, the BBC made sure we lost in the end."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/jul/16/tv-rivals-royal-television-society">Continue reading...</a>MediaTelevision industryBreakfast TVCultureTelevisionBBCITV channelNick RossBreadTue, 16 Jul 2013 09:18:55 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/jul/16/tv-rivals-royal-television-societyPhotograph: Rex FeaturesThose were the days – Angela Rippon, David Frost and Anna Ford on BBC Breakfast in 1983. Photograph: Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Rex FeaturesThose were the days – Angela Rippon, David Frost and Anna Ford on BBC Breakfast in 1983. Photograph: Rex FeaturesMonkey2013-07-16T09:18:55ZQuiz: Jeremy Irons or Nick Ross?https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/quiz/2013/jun/10/quiz-jeremy-irons-nick-ross
On the emotive subjects of sexual politics, violence against women and child abuse, this year has seen the rise of not one, but two prominent controversialists: Nick Ross and Jeremy Irons. While not always in perfect accord, their views often strike a similar note. Occasionally they seem prepared to say those things that Norman Tebbit only dares to think. Can you ascribe the following quotations to one or the other?<p class="question__text">“Our forebears might be astonished at how safe women are today given what throughout history would have been regarded as incitement. Not even in the licentious days of the Charles II Restoration in the 17th century was it acceptable for women to dress as provocatively as they have done in western culture since the 1960s.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“If the worst thing you have done was put your hand on someone’s thigh under their skirt, that may be sexual abuse, but it’s not like buggering a nine-year-old boy.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“It is sacrilege to suggest that there can be any gradation: rape is rape. Yet the real experts, the victims, know otherwise.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“I mean, look at Top of the Pops. What were those girls doing there? What did they want, the lot of them, when they hung around the caravans and trailers afterwards?”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“Like it or not, TV is a lookism medium. The fact is that looks are important for boys and for girls. In 40 years of TV I have never worked with a minger.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“Rape victims were once treated appallingly, as though it was all their fault, but have we now gone too far the other way?”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“I understand that civil partnership is actually no different from marriage, so it’s purely the word they want, which sounds a very big battle for a rather little gain.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“Tax-wise [gay marriage] is an interesting one, because, you see, a father could marry his son.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">[On child pornography]: “I think if someone came to me and said: ‘Would you like to see what all the fuss is about?’, I’m sorry, I probably would say yes.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="question__text">“Once again, I am being made to sound as though I am making outrageous comments.”</p><p class="answer__text">Jeremy Irons</p><p class="answer__text">Nick Ross</p><p class="score__min-score">0 and above.</p><p class="score__title">You'd have been better off guessing Jeremy Irons every time. Or Nick Ross.</p><p class="score__min-score">4 and above.</p><p class="score__title">You have a burgeoning gift for identifying sexist nonsense.</p><p class="score__min-score">8 and above.</p><p class="score__title">You are Jeremy Irons. Or Nick Ross.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/quiz/2013/jun/10/quiz-jeremy-irons-nick-ross">Continue reading...</a>WomenJeremy IronsNick RossMon, 10 Jun 2013 15:54:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/quiz/2013/jun/10/quiz-jeremy-irons-nick-rossPhotograph: Rex, Getty ImagesJeremy Irons and Nick Ross Photograph: Rex, Getty ImagesPhotograph: Rex, Getty ImagesJeremy Irons and Nick Ross Photograph: Rex, Getty ImagesTim Dowling2013-06-10T15:54:11ZNick Ross: 'Rape isn't always rape'https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2013/may/27/nick-ross-rape-book-crime
In his new book Crime, the former Crimewatch presenter argues that rape should have gradations of seriousness<p><strong>Age:</strong> 65</p><p><strong>Appearance:</strong> former cast member of The Bill. He did have something to do with law enforcement, if memory serves. He used to present Crimewatch.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2013/may/27/nick-ross-rape-book-crime">Continue reading...</a>Nick RossMediaMon, 27 May 2013 19:12:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2013/may/27/nick-ross-rape-book-crimePhotograph: Rex FeaturesNick Ross: accused of 'trotting out the same spurious myths about rape'. Photograph: Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Rex FeaturesNick Ross: accused of 'trotting out the same spurious myths about rape'. Photograph: Rex FeaturesGuardian Staff2013-05-27T19:12:00ZEx-Crimewatch presenter defends rape remarkshttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/26/crimewatch-presenter-defends-rape-remarks
Nick Ross claims in new book that half of all women who have had penetrative sex unwillingly do not think they were raped<p>The former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross has defended himself over remarks suggesting that "rape isn't always rape".</p><p>In his new book, serialised in the Mail on Sunday, he claims that half of all women who have had penetrative sex unwillingly do not think they were raped.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/26/crimewatch-presenter-defends-rape-remarks">Continue reading...</a>Rape and sexual assaultSocietyNick RossMediaUK newsSun, 26 May 2013 17:45:43 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/26/crimewatch-presenter-defends-rape-remarksPhotograph: Yui Mok/PANick Ross said his book 'raises powerful and important challenges to conventional thinking about crime'. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAPhotograph: Yui Mok/PANick Ross said his book 'raises powerful and important challenges to conventional thinking about crime'. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAPress Association2013-05-26T17:45:43ZThree reasons why a vagina is not like a laptop | Sarah Ditumhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/26/nick-ross-confuse-vagina-laptop
Former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross seems to think there are parallels between rape and property theft<p>"Don't have nightmares!" Nick Ross used to say, when he hosted <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ppmq" title="">Crimewatch</a>, but little did we guess at the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser" title=""> Hellraiser</a>-esque horrors haunting our plucky watcher of crime until this weekend. In an extract from his book, Crime, published in the Mail today, Ross reveals that he has been afflicted with a terrible case of<a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e7342" title=""> visual agnosia</a> which has left him unable to tell the difference between vaginas and laptops.</p><p>He writes: "We have come to acknowledge it is foolish to leave laptops on the back seat of a car […] Our forebears might be astonished at how safe women are today given what throughout history would have been regarded as incitement […] Equally they would be baffled that girls are mostly unescorted, stay out late, often get profoundly drunk and sometimes openly kiss, grope or go to bed with one-night stands."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/26/nick-ross-confuse-vagina-laptop">Continue reading...</a>Rape and sexual assaultLawSocietyCrimeUK newsMediaNick RossSun, 26 May 2013 13:04:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/26/nick-ross-confuse-vagina-laptopPhotograph: LJSphotography / Alamy/Alamy‘This is an idea that belongs to the dark ages when women were permitted to own nothing apart from their "honour".' Photograph: LJSphotography / Alamy/AlamyPhotograph: LJSphotography / Alamy/Alamy‘This is an idea that belongs to the dark ages when women were permitted to own nothing apart from their "honour".' Photograph: LJSphotography / Alamy/AlamySarah Ditum2013-05-26T13:04:06ZYour next chief of police could be a television starhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/11/katie-price-next-police-chief
The ex-Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross in the running to be an elected crime commissioner<p>Television presenters are among those putting themselves forward as candidates to become crime commissioners, raising fresh questions about the calibre of individuals who will assume control of Britain's police forces at the end of 2012.</p><p>The former BBC <em>Crimewatch</em> presenter Nick Ross is among those understood to have expressed an interest in controlling who will be in charge of appointing chief constables and setting budgets and priorities.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/11/katie-price-next-police-chief">Continue reading...</a>PoliceKatie PriceNick RossBrian PaddickUK newsMediaSun, 11 Dec 2011 00:06:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/11/katie-price-next-police-chiefPhotograph: GuardianNick Ross Photograph: GuardianPhotograph: GuardianNick Ross Photograph: GuardianMark Townsend2011-12-11T00:06:00ZNick Ross: 'I've never worked with a minger'https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/26/nick-ross-ageism-minger
TV veteran shows little sympathy for former Countryfile presenter Miriam O'Reilly's call for more older female faces on screen<p>Miriam O'Reilly may have won her age discrimination case against the BBC. But she found little sympathy for the plight of older presenters at a TV industry conference on Friday, with broadcasting veteran Nick Ross arguing that he has "never worked with a minger".</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/26/nick-ross-ageism-minger">Continue reading...</a>MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival 2011Edinburgh International Television FestivalNick RossMiriam O'ReillyBBCTelevision industryMediaTelevisionTelevision & radioCultureUK newsFri, 26 Aug 2011 18:48:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/26/nick-ross-ageism-mingerMark Sweney2011-08-26T18:48:11ZNick Ross BBC phone-in 'healed' aide, Daily Mail libel trial toldhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/feb/19/dailymail.medialaw
<p>A former top adviser to the Archbishop of Westminster heard his ex-girlfriend on a BBC Radio 4 phone-in accusing him of not supporting her over an abortion, a libel trial heard today. </p><p>Austen Ivereigh, who is suing the Daily Mail for calling him a "hypocrite", told a jury how he had listened to his former lover speaking on the Call Nick Ross programme in 1997, eight years after the termination had taken place. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/feb/19/dailymail.medialaw">Continue reading...</a>Daily MailMedia lawNewspapers & magazinesMediaUK newsLawNick RossTue, 19 Feb 2008 12:03:44 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/feb/19/dailymail.medialawChris Tryhorn2008-02-19T12:03:44ZRoss traduced by telling truth about media's 'big lie'https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2007/jul/23/rosstraducedbytellingtruth
<p>The former presenter of BBC1's Crimewatch, <strong>Nick Ross</strong>, was accused yesterday of "criminal folly" by the <strong>Mail on Sunday</strong> because he dared to accuse the media of distorting crime figures. The newspaper's attack was, paradoxically, a distortion of Ross's argument.</p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/saturday.shtml">On Radio 4's Today programme</a>, Ross said: "The media have long been peddling a big lie about crime, either that or they have been astonishingly incompetent about persuading their listeners, readers and viewers of the truth because the truth is that crime has been declining for well over a decade.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2007/jul/23/rosstraducedbytellingtruth">Continue reading...</a>Newspapers & magazinesMediaWorld newsNick RossMon, 23 Jul 2007 08:30:51 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2007/jul/23/rosstraducedbytellingtruthRoy Greenslade2007-07-23T08:30:51Z'I wasn't pushed. I was manoeuvred on to the ledge ...'https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/jul/12/features11.g2
Nick Ross on quitting Crimewatch, BBC ageism and why Barry George is guilty<p>There is much less of it, although it is almost impossible to get people to believe that. Car crime is pretty much half what it was in 1995. Domestic burglaries are down about 55%. Homicide is up, but if you take out things such as 50 people suffocating in a lorry, which all goes in one year's statistics, it is fairly constant.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/jul/12/features11.g2">Continue reading...</a>Nick RossWed, 11 Jul 2007 23:01:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/jul/12/features11.g2Guardian Staff2007-07-11T23:01:07ZBBC denies ageism as Ross quits Crimewatchhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/20/broadcasting.bbc
<strong>&#183;</strong> Presenter, 59, told contract will not be renewed<br /><strong>&#183;</strong> It's the right time to go, says veteran of 23 years<p>The Crimewatch anchor Nick Ross, famous for his "don't have nightmares" signoff line, yesterday became the latest high-profile BBC presenter to become embroiled in a row over ageism as he departed from the show.</p><p>Ross, who had fronted the crime programme for 23 years, said he left after learning that his contract would not be renewed following a major overhaul of the format. "One would be kidding oneself if it [age] wasn't a component part of it," he said. "The very fact that they were having a review of the programme's future and had not informed me meant that I was at once one step removed and I needed no further indication that it was the right time to go."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/20/broadcasting.bbc">Continue reading...</a>BBCMediaUK newsTelevision industryNick RossWed, 20 Jun 2007 06:10:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/20/broadcasting.bbcOwen Gibson, media correspondent2007-06-20T06:10:37ZWould it be a felony to replace Nick Ross on Crimewatch?https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2007/jun/19/woulditbeacrimetoreplace
Who should replace Nick Ross on Crimewatch?<p>As the BBC decides whether or not to <a href="http://media.theguardian.com/broadcast/story/0,,2106437,00.html">replace Nick Ross on Crimewatch</a>, we'd like to ask you who you think would make the best replacement in a new double act with Fiona Bruce...and who would give you nightmares?</p><p>Or maybe you think nobody at all should take over. The BBC has said today that Bruce, will continue to front the series but has not yet made a decision to replace Ross. Should they?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2007/jun/19/woulditbeacrimetoreplace">Continue reading...</a>Television industryMediaNick RossTue, 19 Jun 2007 11:09:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2007/jun/19/woulditbeacrimetoreplaceBen Dowell2007-06-19T11:09:03ZRoss quits Crimewatchhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/19/bbc.broadcasting
<p>Nick Ross, whose catchphrase "Don't have nightmares, do sleep well" has ended each edition of Crimewatch for the past 23 years, is to leave the show.</p><p>It is understood Ross decided to resign after the production team planned to make changes to the programme without informing him.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/19/bbc.broadcasting">Continue reading...</a>BBCMediaTelevision industryNick RossTue, 19 Jun 2007 10:05:49 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/19/bbc.broadcastingLeigh Holmwood2007-06-19T10:05:49ZMy mediahttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/15/mondaymediasection8
Nick Ross<p><strong>Newspapers</strong><br> I like the columnists most, especially those who challenge assumptions like David Aaronovitch and Anatole Kaletsky in the Times, Simon Jenkins in the Guardian and John Lloyd in the FT. I have to spin through the Mail because it mixes prejudice and news into an iconic journalistic artform.</p><p><strong>Magazines</strong><br> I used to read lots of magazines but less so in the electronic age. Occasionally the Economist, the Week, the FT supplements, and lots of quite obscure journals like the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Skeptic, which all journalists ought to read, and HealthWatch Newsletter.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/15/mondaymediasection8">Continue reading...</a>MediaNick RossMon, 15 May 2006 22:48:38 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/15/mondaymediasection8Interview by Katie Shimmon2006-05-15T22:48:38ZNick Ross: My ambition to kill 4,000https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/25/world.comment
<p>So when, in a BBC canteen in the 1980s, I accepted a dare to construct a TV programme out of the dullest, most worthy subject my colleagues could think of, after only the briefest of huddles they chose road safety. </p><p>But my despair was short-lived. I soon discovered what a battlefield it was out there, an unrelenting production line churning out more than 6,000 corpses every year; yet, as one academic put it, there were solutions lying around just waiting to be picked up. The resulting programme was almost pornographic in its violence, opening with the entire population of Wallingford in Berkshire lying in the town streets to represent the annual cull, and followed by human dummies smashing into dashboards, life-like plastic babies hurtling through windscreens, wild-eyed volunteers experiencing the terror of a simulated crash, and all amid the showered, twisted and bloody debris of real accidents and real victims with screaming ambulances, silent mortuaries and the dismal knock on a door in the night as the police arrived to tell a wife and mother that she was now a widow. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/25/world.comment">Continue reading...</a>UK newsWorld newsTransportNick RossWed, 25 Aug 2004 22:58:45 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/25/world.commentNick Ross2004-08-25T22:58:45ZOut of the boxhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/apr/28/publicservices.guardiansocietysupplement
Nick Ross is best known for his TV work, but he's also passionate about social policy. He talks to Jonathan Myerson about crime, road safety and choice in public services<p>Picture the scene: it's the 1950s, the three Ross children - Nick is the one in the middle - are gathered on their parents' bed for Sunday morning storytime. Will it be Goldilocks or perhaps something from Enid Blyton? No, as always, it is another true life story derived from his parents' lives as Liberal councillors in Sutton, Surrey. Councillors' casework stories: unexpected beginnings, gruesome middles and hardly ever a happy ending. A bit like Crimewatch, Ross's crime reconstruction TV show, then. </p><p>Those bedtime stories may also explain why, when his life must be busy enough with TV and radio appearances, and the spin-off conference work ("I turn down more than I accept"), he is serious enough about social affairs to find the time to sit on several commissions and working parties, from the NHS Plan taskforce on health inequalities to the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/apr/28/publicservices.guardiansocietysupplement">Continue reading...</a>SocietyPublic services policyNick RossWed, 28 Apr 2004 00:00:57 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/apr/28/publicservices.guardiansocietysupplementJonathan Myerson2004-04-28T00:00:57ZCrimewatch presenter attacks 'stupid' policehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/21/whitehall.ukcrime
<p>In an outspoken interview with The Observer, he describes government claims to be tough on crime as 'meaningless garbage' and said that police attempts to prevent crime were 'stupid and unintelligent'. </p><p>The 53-year-old presenter said police forces were incapable of carrying out elementary tasks that would enable officials to build up a picture of crime in Britain and that they did not keep meaningful statistical data. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/21/whitehall.ukcrime">Continue reading...</a>UK newsCivil serviceCrimePoliticsPoliceNick RossSat, 20 Oct 2001 23:25:45 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/21/whitehall.ukcrimeAmelia Hill2001-10-20T23:25:45Z'A generous, open, friendly person' - Crimewatch co-presenter Nick Ross on Jill Dandohttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/26/1
'People say treacly things in these situations, but the truth is that everybody got on with Jill' - Nick Ross<p> <b>Nick Ross</b><br> Nick Ross, Jill Dando's Crimewatch co-presenter, was told the news by a colleague shortly after it was confirmed and said it hit him like "a bolt from the blue". </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/26/1">Continue reading...</a>UK newsNick RossMon, 26 Apr 1999 15:58:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/26/1By Guardian staff and agencies1999-04-26T15:58:02Z